Sometimes I just hate Windows Live Spaces!!!! I tried doing this update yesterday but for some obscure reason it decided not to upload ad then to delete everything so I have to start all over again. One day I must get round to looking at the alternatives.

 

So another year ends, and the next one begins. It's this time each year I look back at the year behind me and make plans for the year ahead. This time there's not a lot to look back on. A year of ambitions and plans wrecked by someone else and dreams destroyed. The challenge of doing all the Wainwrights in a year between birthdays went by the wayside as legal issues took the time and energy away, and the TGO Chllenge fell to a deliberate piece of bloody mindedness. But that's all history now.

 

So on to this year. The first thing to consider is the whole purpose of this blog. It started as a personal diary, but recent developments prevent me from mentioning someone at all, and from publishing any photographs whatsoever with her in them. That rather destroys the objective of a personal diary - and undermines totally the concept of free speech!! So what's left is a mountain based blog that somehow has to get updated regularly, but be of relevance. One objecive has to be to move the whole blog elsewhere, such as my own website, to give more control over content - and control access so malicious, lying, cheating people of debatable parentage don't get to see what's happening in the lives of people  they have no right to know about.

 

Blog plans for the next year then include a twice weekly update, mainly consisting of trip reports, equipment reviews and general musing on the whole subject of the outdoors. Highlights planned for the first three months include:

 

Ireland revisited - a return to the Emerald Isle to complete unfinished business and take on new targets.

Water Filters - a look at what they do and which are the most cost effective

Merrell Chameleon II GTX mid boots - review

Paramo Gaiters - review

Book List - Part 2

Back to the Alps - a return to 4000 metres after a 4 year lay off

Live GPS - The future of live GPS tracking by internet

 

That should be enough to start with, along with trip reports, bloggers wild camps etc and should keep the site moving without becoming a daily chore.

 

So here's to year 47 :)